CHAPTER X 158

General Brooke Succeeded by General Leonard Wood--Favorable Reception of
the Soldier-Statesman--A Cabinet of Cubans--Efficient Attention Paid to
Public Education--Cuban Teachers at Harvard--Caring for Derelict
Children--Public Works--Sanitation--Port
Improvements--Roads--Paving--The Heroic Drama of the Conquest of Yellow
Fever--Work of General Gorgas--A Home of Pestilence Transformed into a
Sanitarium--Reforms in Court Procedure--Cleaning Up the Prisons--The
First Election in Free Cuba--Rise of Political Parties--Taxation and the
Tariff--Increase of Commerce.

CHAPTER XI 185

Preparations for Self-Government--Call for a Constitutional
Convention--The Election--Meeting of the Convention--General Wood's
Address--Organization of the Convention--Framing the
Constitution--Debates over Church and State, and Presidential
Qualifications--Signing of the Constitution--No Americans Present at the
Convention--General Provisions of the Constitution--Relations between
Cuba and the United States--Controversy between the Two
Governments--Origin of the "Platt Amendment"--Attitude of the Cubans
Toward It--Malign Agitation and Misrepresentation--A Mission to
Washington--Final Adoption of the Amendment.

CHAPTER XII 204

Text of the Constitution of the Cuban Republic--The Nation, Its Form of
Government, and the National Territory--Cubans and Foreigners--Bill of
Rights--Sovereignty and Public Powers--The Legislature--The
President--The Vice-President--The Secretaries of State--The Judicial
Power--Provincial and Municipal Governments--Amendments.

CHAPTER XIII 240

Election of the First Cuban Government--Candidates for the
Presidency--Tomas Estrada Palma Chosen by Common Consent--General Maso's
Candidacy--The Election--Close of the American Occupation--A Festal Week
in Havana--Transfer of Authority to the Cuban Government--The Cuban Flag
at Last Raised in Sovereignty of the Island--President Roosevelt's
Estimate of General Wood's Work in Cuba--President Palma's Cabinet--His
First Message--The United States Naval Station--Reciprocity Secured
after Discreditable Delay at Washington.

CHAPTER XIV 259

Admirable Work of the Palma Administration--Rise of Sordid
Factionalism--Jose Miguel Gomez, Alfredo Zayas and Orestes
Ferrara--Character of the Liberal Party, and of the Conservative
Party--Conspiracy to Discredi